YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The U.S. military hasn’t announced any freedom-of-navigation operations in the South China Sea since last year, signaling a break from earlier Trump administration rhetoric on curbing China’s ambitions. The Pentagon has quashed multiple Navy requests to co...

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WASHINGTON — The global market for drones is expected to reach $22.15 billion by 2022, according to a new report from Statistics MRC . While the military market for drones is only a subcategory of that market, military usage is also expected to grow. The report highlights the public s...

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin promised House budget planners on Wednesday that he’ll move ahead with plans to expand mental health services and caregiver support programs, even if he can’t get more money for the effort. “We’re going to find a way to help,” he s...

Stryker vehicles from the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Romania. ARLINGTON: Russia no longer owns the airwaves in Eastern Europe. Two decades after the US Army unilaterally disarmed its electronic warfare branch , two years after Russian jamming crippled Ukrainian units, the Germany-...

The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), an ethnic Uighur jihadist group closely allied to al Qaeda, has allegedly operated in Syria since 2012. Two years later, the TIP began advertising its role in suicide bombings in support of al Qaeda’s, or other rebel operations. These suicide operati...

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) claimed 120 of its fighters assaulted a Pakistani military base in the Shawal area of North Waziristan to retaliate for the April 29 US drone strike in Datta Khel that reportedly killed an al Qaeda leader. Shawal is one of several areas in...

Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, will be the first to receive the Army's new Sig Sauer-made handguns. Lt. Col. Steven Power, product manager of Soldier Weapons for Program Executive Office Soldier, told attendees at the National Defense Industrial ...

The Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency has claimed responsibility for a bombing that targeted a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan earlier today. A jihadist detonated his vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) near a security checkpoint in the Afghan capital, close to where th...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s defense and procurement officials are expecting to finalize a large defense export contract with Saudi Arabia, but its contents will be kept top secret. Turkish Defence Minister Fikri Isik has said the defense export contract with Saudi Arabia will be the lar...

Al Malahem Media, the main propaganda arm for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), published a “dialogue” with Qasim al Raymi on Apr. 30. Raymi was named AQAP’s overall emir after a drone strike killed his predecessor , Nasir al Wuhayshi, in June 2015. For nearly two years since ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s secretive B-21 bomber took a hit in the fiscal 2017 omnibus spending bill, with congressional appropriators stripping about $20 million from the program, budget documents show. Although the service requested $1.358 billion to fund research and development ...

A “key” al Qaeda commander was among seven jihadists reportedly killed in the Apr. 29 drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal agency of North Waziristan, according to press accounts from the region. The strike took place in an area that the Pakistan military claimed was cleared of jihadists...

The Army has begun weighing its options to retaliate against Pakistani forces on the Line of Control, after their troops, employing jihadi extremists, killed and beheaded two Indian soldiers near Poonch on Monday, top generals said. It is learnt that the incident took place when an In...

U.S. forces conducting patrols to deter aggression between Turkish forces and Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces, both partners in the fight against the Islamic State, were photographed at a funeral April 29 where flags of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a U.S.-des...

At 100-years old, retired Marine Col. Julia Hamblet, the longest-serving director of the women's branch of the Marines, died Monday at a nursing home in Williamsburg, Virginia, according to the Washington Post . She was 100 years old. Hamblet's military service that began with the U.S...

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This undated photo obtained by the Associated Press shows an Iraqi bodyguard hired by Sallyport Global to protect VIPs. When a Toyota SUV was stolen from Balad air base, he became the chief suspect and was linked to a dangerous Iran-backed militia and was viewed by investigators as “a...

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — An unarmed missile capable of sending a nuclear bomb across the world was launched Wednesday from a coastal California military base amid rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. The unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile bl...

Defense Department innovation leaders this morning described some of the most advanced capabilities fueling U.S. military technical dominance today and for the future during testimony before the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee. Marines raise the firing tubes of a high-mobil...

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said he is open to adopting the new military electronic health record system for his department but stopped short of promising that will happen this summer. “We’re exploring all options,” Shulkin told members of the House Appropria...

Kashmir on boil again, army camp attacked, stone throwing by girl students, jawans killed, youth killed in cross-firing, security forces humiliated are the headlines now days. We rarely hear of Jammu and Ladakh that constitute 84% of the State’s land area. So why has the situation wor...

WASHINGTON — Congressional appropriators have added $75 million to the UH-1N Huey helicopter replacement program for fiscal 2017 in order to expedite the program. The president’s budget request put forward last year asked for $18 million for the effort. The omnibus spending bill would...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing at least eight Afghan civilians and wounding three U.S. service members in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior ...

Moreover, the French army maintained its momentum in Mali, after its initial successes - achieved thanks to operative and tactical surprise - by risking the launch of an immediate counter-offensive operation, even before taking the time to gather all required means. This contradicts t...

So what is the Army looking at to streamline logistics in the nearer term? Perhaps the lowest-hanging fruit is electronics. Better electrical power management at forward bases and field command posts — software that cycles generators on and off depending on demand, for example — can r...

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The U.S. Senate will vote on Heather Wilson, President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next secretary of the Air Force , by early next week, a Senate official told Military.com on Wednesday. The Senate Armed Services Committee on April 5 advanced Wilson’s confirmation. But sometime in t...

Addressing the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee and Sub-Committee on Security and Defence on Wednesday (3 May 2017), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed closer cooperation between the European Union and the Alliance. He stressed that “cooperation is now the...

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WASHINGTON, May 3, 2017 — The European theater is critical to America’s national interests and the NATO alliance is a key advantage for the United States, said Army Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, the commander of U.S. European Command, during testimony yesterday. Scaparrotti, who is also...